GREAT RAIN STORM.
IN WEST INDIES. ISLANDS DEVASTATED. Press Aseocktion-By Telegraph-Copyright Received 5.5 p.m., Nov. 14th.' LONDON, Nov. 13. A hurricane prevailed at Jamaica for some weeks, the rainfall averaging 10 inches daily, causing land slides and inundating and playing havoc among the plantations. The damage in Kingston and the neighbourhood is put at £500,000. A number of people were drowned.
Haiti and San Domingo were devastated by flood, several small towns are in ruins and many lives were lost at Haiti, which was further damaged by an earthquake. A Kingston cablegram assesses the Jamaica damage at a million. The railway tunnels are blocked by laud slides, several bridges destroyed, and one-third of the banana plantations oa the northern side of the island were ruined. The roads are impassable and many villages are isolated. The town of Annott Bay was flooded three feet.
The Government's Calamities Fund of £IOO,OOO will be exhausted in repairing bridges, roads and railways. (A memo from the Cable Company states that the Jamaica and Port Rico cables and land lines are all interrupted. Telegrams for Jamaica and Porto Rico are being forwarded by the best means, without extra charge.)
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14057, 15 November 1909, Page 5
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